hello welcome to Kate's Ag today is the second full day of harvest and the third
day of harvest so my uncle chris's combine just broke down and i'm about to head into
lunch to see what's going on and what happened to it and why i'm the only combine in the field
i'm the only combine that's able to go right now because the other one broke down
could you explain what happened dad the belt broke for whatever reason so one combine is a
lot slower to get the wheat picked up but at least we still have one going hi darcy
i'm here with dean and he's one of our employees for harvest and you drive truck and you are also
in my first time driving truck video in the grain bin yes so you took the belt off yes how
do you like harvest so far it's a little slow but it's going good it's going good if we just keep
constant pace we'll be doing good yes definitely for sure we've only got this combine my columbine
running right now yeah the star of the show yes it's kind of it happened that way with the
9610 and i2 so see you must be doing something right if you're the only one out in the field
yes exactly and let's hope to keep it that way proving all the guys wrong breaking everything
while you just sit out there and do your job yes exactly this is the 9760 sts that is broke
down in the field my uncle chris went to town to get a belt and parts for it to help fix it
all right i just got back from lunch and now i'm turning around to go start another swath i
am the only combine in this field and it really feels like you're going super duper slowly at
getting all the swaths when you've only got one i remember last year we had one combine broke
down and two combines felt like you were getting nowhere with picking up wheat so i'm just heading
over to my swath right now now i'm turning on my machine and i'm heading forward was my dad talking
on the radio to our swather gym and swathers are always in a different field as my uncle chris said
in our first day of swathing 2021 video we like to keep them about a week ahead because usually
we have three combines going and one swather so the swather still has to cover all the ground
i'm going about 2.8 miles an hour right now so i'm just trying to speed up
i have a grain cart all to myself though i kind of like that because
sometimes you have to wait for other combines and stuff like that but i don't today so that's kind
of exciting now i have to be really careful with my combine because if i were to plug up my combine
we would have no combines going that would be horrific because it's really important to get this
weed off the ground in a timely manner because weather might come in
the swaths are a lot bigger in size here so you would think that there's a lot more
wheat kernels but really it's just the stem that's much bigger so i do have to slow down
because there's a lot more material that has to go through the machine but the heads didn't fill
out and that's what we were worried about is we never got a final reign i'm actually on ground
that my great-grandfather homesteaded in 1912. he is originally from denmark so that's just
awesome and it's incredible to think that i'm harvesting on the same ground that he once did
with horses i just can't even believe it i am now fourth generation and the farm has still lived on
and survived this ground has seen technology throughout the years it is pretty incredible
i have a pretty good feeling for the combine now and it's only been a day and a half so far
so that's really good i always get these errors and things on my screen that beep
so i have to press this green check mark to let them go it's crazy how in a car a tenth
of a mile an hour you never know the difference and even a mile an hour whereas in combine one
tenth of a mile an hour makes the world of difference i'd like to say a huge thank you
to mr bakari and his family for sending me this wonderful yeti lunch box and ice packs and cooler
because i absolutely love it and it's my favorite color i'll be taking in the combine with me
every day and i have been and it's been so helpful so thank you so much and i really appreciate all
your kind and informational and awesome comments and also hello if you're watching we've had a lot
of smoke in montana and in our area especially it's been absolutely crazy so today i am so
happy because the skies are finally starting to become a little bit more blue and that just is
wonderful because that's one of my favorite parts about driving around the field in the combine
i feel so thankful for the opportunity i have to do this and to be a part of something that
one day puts food on people's tables hopefully we get that other combine started today when you go
to john deere you never know if they're going to have the part or if all their mechanics are out
helping other people because it is harvest time this is the busiest time of the year
right here is my hydrostat and if i move it back the slightest bit
that changed two tenths of a mile an hour so it is absolutely crazy how this works i just pushed it
up one tenth right there the wheat swath is huge right here if you've seen the big elevator that
we use for grain storage in any of my videos it's right over there so that's where we are
in relation to the elevator the 15 grain bins are way over there i just saw a bird in the wheat soil
so i'm going to go very slowly and carefully oh there he is right there he's so cute oh no i can't
run them over the combine just pulled back in the field so i thought everything was good and it was
fixed but it looks like my dad is pulling out of the field i now just pulled out of my wheat swath
because my dad pulled out of his looks like the combine's still not working so i moved over to
the outside pass because i'm going to have to dump this time but my window isn't full yet
there's always lots of problems at harvest that's just what happens
i guess we'll see if my dad can get the combine working they must have got the belt put in it
what happened was a belt was shredded in the field and then dean our employee cut the rest of it out
as you can see the grain's starting to pile up it always looks a lot
worse kind of by the window in the sense of it has its little the kernels have their covering
on them because that for some reason builds up by the window and then you just see more
of it when you're looking in your grain tank whereas if you dump and you don't see
very much grain kernels with the chaff and covering on them then that's what you gauge it off
of is when you dump we always eat dinner and lunch in the fields and that's something really awesome
our cook will usually set up the table and chairs buy a semi truck to create shade and
usually it's darcy's semi-truck and then the combines and grain cart will park downwind
and we all go to lunch also our employees working at the bins come for lunch as well the only person
who doesn't on our team is our swather they usually pack a lunch or we bring them a lunch
my green tank should be filling up here within the neck i'm about halfway through my row so another
quarter of my row and i should be filling up my window now is now completely full but
i'll get a buzzer on my screen and a little notification that says when my grain tanks
full the grain cart driver should be coming here soon so i'll put my auger out even though i'm not
full he's pretty far away i always fill up right at this part of the field we have so many birds
in the wheat swash i just love to see them and also since we don't have the straw choppers on
and we're leaving rows of straw for a baler to come and pick up they can go over there and have
a new little home for a little while which is awesome and here the grain cart comes
so you'll get to see me dumping on the go i have a little yellow button i press here once the green
card's fully under me and has matched my speed and then i already clicked my auger out button
and once the grain is stopped at the very end of the dump i'll put my auger back in it's our grain
cart driver's second day i think he's doing pretty good compared to our other green cart drivers
it's important to have patience for your new team members who have never experienced this before i'm
only going 2.8 miles an hour right now i could be going faster but i don't like to max it out when
i'm with the grain cart and especially only on a second day looks like the grain's almost empty so
when it's about right there i'll press my button and shut it off and then once the grain has fully
stopped coming out i put my auger in and that's our green card driver signal to go forward and
then i give him a little bit of a nod so he knows the red harvesting crew across the road over here
you mostly see green combines in the area but the occasional red ones here's the swath it's
absolutely gigantic the other combine is still not going it broke down around 11 or 11 30 and it's 4
30 now and still not running now i'm finishing this row one row in because i completely forgot
that i had a half row to pick out up on the outside so thankfully my grain tank buzzer
isn't going off and the green car driver didn't know what i was doing so i was just
explaining to him that i think i'm going to head this direction and just do another laugh instead
of roading up and getting this i'll just go all the way around and rode back down to it because
i was already done with this block when i realized my mistake my dad did a half a row and every time
when i get around there i completely forget about it because i only remember it when i'm down here
i'll need to dump headed south oh okay thank you the green cart driver is parked way over there
i've got a grain tank full light i just got my grain tank full buzzer i just want
to let them know that you should maybe come here in a speedy manner i know you're gonna
swing around and pick up this uh those dual chunks here's why i came out here
no that's okay thank you i'm going to get that rather than because i was almost already done
with the row rather than rode back up and get it i thought i'll just get it when i come around
a little bit of confusion there because of these half rows
my window is not even got grain in it he might make it so now i'm going to spin my combine
around and because the row headed west oh i did that bit fast because the row headed west only
has about four more swaths like the width of the field i'm really trying to bridge the gap
between farmers and consumers so that everyone can learn how their food gets to their table and
where it all starts which is on a farm and also how their clothing is grown because cotton and
all the materials that are natural fibers start on a farm and eventually end up in your closet or
on your table and it's a very important process i think for people to understand and know about
this field we probably would have been done with at least two hours ago i think if we had
another combine it's slowing down our operation considerably and our migraine car driver made
it you made it just in time the wheat swamps look a lot bigger right when they're swapped and then
after a couple days or a week they start to settle down and they look a lot smaller